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I found a great, brief resource on creating accessible web pages and documents. It only highlights most common accessibility issues, so it's much less overwhelming than the WCAG. I think it's a great resource for people who don't know where to start! Also it has before and after examples, so it's great to demo with a screen reader as well! #accessibility washington.edu/accesscomputing…
#Accessibility

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Greta Thunberg joined our United for Climate Justice coalition today and our blockade of a busy Brussels' street.
This disruption of traffic and of business as usual is nothing in comparison to what the climate catastrophe will wreak.
We need urgent action now, but we're still rushing headlong into a terrifying future, all for the sake of greed and growth.

politico.eu/article/brussels-g…

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #XR #ExtinctionRebellion #Brussels #Belgium #Activism #CivilDisobedience

#Climatecrisis #climatechange #activism #extinctionrebellion #belgium #brussels #xr #civildisobedience

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Together with other organisations we are currently blocking the Rogier metro station in Brussels as part of the ongoing #StopFossilSubsidies action.

€400 billion in subsidies was given to the fossil industry in the EU last year, which is about €1000 per EU citizen. (1/3)

#ClimateJustice #UnitedForClimateJustice

A group of protesters blocks a street in Brussels. A couple of them, wearing white lab coats, are holding a banner saying 'Scientist Rebellion. The privilege to know, the duty to act'. The entrance to metro station 'Rogier' is visible in the background.
#ClimateJustice #stopfossilsubsidies #unitedforclimatejustice
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If you are like me, you often need to type or copy and paste things over and over again. For example, I have a couple Zoom meetings I host. Even though I email the Zoom info to people, there is always somebody who calls me or emails me and asks for the Zoom info again. This used to be annoying, until I found out about the text substitution feature of Microsoft Word and Outlook. Note, I do not know if this feature works in the new version of Outlook. I have only tried this in Outlook Classic. The way this works is that whatever text you need to put in a Outlook email or Word document often, you create what Word or Outlook calls a building block with the text. As an example, I created a building block with my personal zoom room and called it pz. To do this, I did the following:

  1. I started a new email in Outlook.
  2. I copied the Zoom info from Zoom into the email.
  3. I selected all of the text containing the Zoom info.
  4. I pressed Alt F3.
  5. A box came up asking me for the name of the building block. I typed pz. You can type whatever word or phrase you want.
  6. I pressed Enter.

Now, whenever I need to put this info into an email, I type pz followed by F3. Just like that, my Zoom info is in the body of the email.

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#microsoft #office

#microsoft #office
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Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't note that all the reasons that "lawful access" features in telecom infrastructure are risky apply at least equally to the periodically revived proposals for "key escrow" backdoors in cryptographic systems. Fortunately, we've mostly held back the tide on those, but they come up every few years. It would be a security disaster if they're ever mandated.
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Matt Blaze

Mandated wiretap interfaces and cryptographic backdoors are *expensive*, both in terms of money and, more importantly, exposure to risk. Worse, those burdens are borne inequitably.

Overall, almost no one is the subject of a lawful wiretap, even in places where wiretapping is an important investigative tool. Most people aren't suspects. But these mandates degrade security (and impose other costs) for *everyone*, the vast majority of whom will never be wiretapped.

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While Heinlein had a valid point in this authorial insert, he tiptoed around his own cognitive biases: if entertainers and athletes were inappropriate, WHO did he think deserved to be taken seriously? And why are entertainers and athletes disqualified? Consider President Zelenskyy of Ukraine, or President Vaclav Havel of Czecheslovakia—a comedian on one hand and a satirist on the other, both went on to be statesmen.

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3/ Footnote: "To Sail Beyond the Sunset", Heinlein's last novel, was published posthumously and the opinions in it reflect the end of his political journey—from socialist-proximate in the 1930s to Reaganite libertarian-conservative in the late 1980s, an environment in which neoliberalism seemed to have won, or be on the edge of winning, the argument over how best to structure a society. It's the period when Francis Fukuyama was assembling the epically wrong "The End of History and the Last Man".
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I'm amused even Heinlein drew a line on organ trade in The Cat Who Walked through Walls:

As for the foot itself, by invariant local custom "spare parts" (hands and feet and hearts and kidneys, etc.) were not bought or sold; there was only a service and handling charge billed with the cost of surgery.
Galahad confirmed this. "We do it that way to avoid a black market. I could show you planets where there is indeed a black market, where a matching liver might mean a matching murder--but not here. Lazarus himself set up this rule, more than a century ago. We buy and sell everything else... but we don't traffic in human beings or pieces of human beings."

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#NoEsMiCultura #economiasocialysolidaria

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Es wird vermutlich immer noch Jahrzehnte dauern, bis die Menschenwelt wirklich begreift, dass unendliches wirtschaftliches Wachstum eine Illusion ist, und dass wir endlich anfangen müssen, den Welthandel und die weltweite Produktion von Nahrung und Gütern vom Wachstums-Axiom zu trennen. Ein weiterer lesenswerter Artikel in der #Treibhauspost - über #Klimakrise, #Degrowth, #Schuldenschnitt, #Externalisierung und einiges mehr, was alles miteinander zusammenhängt. Der Artikelautor hat selbst BWL studiert.
steadyhq.com/de/treibhauspost/…
#degrowth #klimakrise #treibhauspost #schuldenschnitt #externalisierung

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Die Typen hinter ShiftPhone machen das ja aus religiöser Überzeugung: "ein Unternehmen, das komplett Gott gehört"
Wir waren gerade im Entscheidungsprozess zwischen FairPhone und ShiftPhone und sind überzeugte Atheist*innen und unterstützen daher nicht gerne wissentlich Unternehmen, die Gott gehören. (Mag für manche meiner Followys ein Pro-Argument sein, für uns spricht es total dagegen.)

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Ich habe mal über Van Halen gelesen, dass sie am Ende ihrer Sicherheitsmassnahmen für Konzertaufbauten die Forderung erhoben, backstage nur braune (oder ohne) M&Ms in einer Schale haben zu wollen. Das klingt erstmal nach bizarrer Superstarattitüde, hatte aber denselben Grund: wer dies nicht erfüllt hat, hat wohl auch den Rest nicht gelesen, und alles muss überprüft werden.
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